Disclaimer: See chapter one.
Okay, it's been really hard to find inspiration with no reviews. Hello? People, are you still there? I like, need you in order to continue writing stuff! Okay! Oh, and I forgot to mention this in the first chapter: In case you forget how to determine the TND and KND see Operation: TEENS. I don't feel like saying it again. ^_^
~*Chapter 3*~
The sun was trying to shine through the snow clouds that covered the town. Those clouds were thick, which probably meant that was the reason the snow was so thick on that fine snow day. The TND and the KND had rented skates and went to the lake in the park. The five teens and five kids were trying to have some fun, but a certain someone had just interrupted that. A second someone was coming, too, followed by a third someone, but they didn't know that, now did they?
"Lizzie, do you really have to hang on my arm that way?" Numbah 1 asked his girlfriend. "You're going to make me loose my balance."
"We never get to spend any time together anymore all because of those stupid Kids Next Door!" Lizzie complained. "You should have told me you were coming down to the lake to skate today! We could have gone together!"
"Uh-huh." Numbah 1 agreed. "Sure."
"Who's your little friend, Numbah 1?" Number 1 asked, kneeling down in front of him on her skates.
"Number 1, this is Lizzie, Lizzie, this is Number 1 of the Teens Next Door." Numbah 1 said dully.
"Oh!" Number 1 gasped. "So you're Lizzie!"
"Uh-huh!" Lizzie cheered. "Nigel's my boyfriend!"
Numbah 1 blushed deep red as Number 1 giggled.
"You're a lucky girl." Number 1 said in between laughs. "Nigel's a great guy."
Numbah 1's face turned extremely stubborn and embarrassed. He narrowed his eyes and looked up at his teenage counterpart above his sunglasses. She winked at him and smiled.
"Hey, Number 1! Numbah 1!" Number 3 called. "We're ready to start skating!"
"Lizzie, I have to go, but we can hang out after I do a few laps on the lake." Numbah 1 announced, looking for an excuse.
"Oh, okay, Nigel." Lizzie said, being 'clingy.' "After you skate, you can buy me a cup of hot cocoa!"
"It's a date." Numbah 1 agreed, giving in. He and Number 1 waved good- bye to Lizzie and skated out on the lake together.
"Why did you call me Nigel?" Numbah 1 asked, at the peak of his annoyance.
"Sorry," Number 1 said innocently. "I was trying to be polite to Lizzie. You can call me Megan if you want."
"I'll save it for the next time I want to embarrass you." Numbah 1 said, half joking, half serious. Number 1 laughed it off and went to skate a figure-8.
On the other side of the lake, Number 2 and her kid counterpart were skating side-by-side. Numbah 2 looked up at her and watched her long, dark brown hair fly in back of her as she picked up speed.
"You're good at this." He complimented her.
"Thanks!" Number 2 said as she started skating backwards.
"I could never do that!" Numbah 2 exclaimed, trying to follow behind her.
"If you think that's impressive, check this out!" Number 2 called as she zoomed faster and faster across the ice backwards. For a moment, Numbah 2 was stunned, but then, his face turned worried and scared.
"You're coming towards the thin ice!" he screamed.
Number 2 was coming onto the thin ice fast, and Numbah 2's scream caught the attention of everybody else that was skating.
"You heard your counterpart!" Number 5 called desperately. "Watch out!"
Number 2 didn't seem worried. She actually had a smirk on her face. Right when she was about land on the thin ice, she jumped up with all her might, flipped, and landed on the other side of it, totally unscathed. The rest of the team just stood there in awe.
"You have to teach me how to do that!" Numbah 2 shrieked.
"I don't think so, Numbah 2," Numbah 4 began. "That was one of the most impressive ice skating moves I've ever seen. No offense or anythin' mate, but you're still a beginner."
The rest of the team nodded in agreement.
"Oh come on!" Number 2 shouted to her team. "He can learn to do that move if he wants! It just takes practice, that's all!" She drew her attention back to her counterpart. "Do you really want to learn how to do that move?" she asked. Numbah 2 nodded in slight embarrassment.
"I'll bet you the twenty you owe me for the candy that he doesn't make it over the ice." Number 1 whispered to her counterpart.
"You've got yourself a bet." Numbah 1 whispered back. "And just to make things more fun, why don't we double that? How 'bout forty dollars?"
Number 1 smirked and nodded as she brought her head back up to watch Numbah 2 attempt to jump over the thin ice.
"Just do exactly as I say." Number 2 said to her counterpart. "Pick up as much speed as possible, jump off at the very tip of your skate, and roll into a ball in the air so that you flip. Don't worry if you don't get the landing right. That's the hardest part." Numbah 2 nodded and narrowed his eyes underneath his air plane cap and goggles. He started skating, faster and faster across the lake, picking up as much speed as he possibly could. He was just about to jump when something came up from behind.
"Hoagie! Do you want to hang out today? We have a snow day!" It was Tommy, Numbah 2's baby brother.
That distracted Numbah 2 and instead of flipping over the thin ice, he fell right into it!
"Numbah 2!" the team called.
"You owe me a forty." Number 1 mumbled to Numbah 1.
"Help!" Numbah 2 called back. "I can't swim!"
With that, Numbah 2's head went below the water. Everybody gasped as Number 2 jumped in after him. She scanned the water quickly, and saw her counterpart sinking. Number 2 was a powerful swimmer, so she dove down far. She finally caught Numbah 2's arm and pulled him up high above the water.
"Thank God!" Number 4 said as she and the rest of the team helped Number 2 get her kid counterpart out of the water, and then herself.
"Somebody get some hot cocoa from the stand!" Number 2 commanded.
Hearing this, Lizzie ran over to the hot cocoa stand and grabbed a cup.
"You're supposed to pay for that!" the cashier yelled after her.
"Sorry!" she yelled back. "It's an emergency!"
Lizzie ran over onto the lake and passed the cup to Number 2. She brought it to Numbah 2's mouth and slowly dripped it in his mouth.
"Are you okay, Numbah 2?" she asked. "Say something!"
Numbah 2 shook his head and opened his eyes.
"Thank God you're alive!" Numbah 5 said.
"Yeah," Numbah 2 confirmed, rubbing his eyes. "I'm okay."
"Hey, Hoagie, you want to hang out now, huh?" Tommy asked, jumping up and down in hope. Numbah 2 shot his brother a death-stare and got up and walked over to him.
"Do I want to hang out?" he repeated. "First, you get everybody sick when you made friends with the Common Cold, then you get sick yourself, and then you almost get me killed! And now you want to hang out?"
Tommy nodded and smiled.
"You idiot." Numbah 2 mumbled. "All I get for hanging out with someone like you is a cold, losing my friends, and almost losing my life! GET OUT OF HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!"
Tommy's lips quivered and he began crying and running away from the TND and KND.
"Stupid brother," Numbah 2 whispered. "I wish my parents stopped at one child."
"That's mean!" Numbah 3 complained.
"Yeah, Numbah 2!" Number 2 chimed in. "The kid's only like, what? Five years old? You can't go busting on him that hard! The reason he wants to hang out with you is because he loves you and he looks up to you as an idol. It's too bad you can't realize it when somebody loves you."
With that, Number 2 took off her skates, put her shoes on, and ran after Tommy.
"Number 2!" Numbah 2 called after her. "Wait! I wasn't serious!"
"Oh yes you were." Number 1 corrected him. "I know. I used to be like that, too, and I know when somebody's joking, and when somebody's serious. And let me tell you, you were dead serious."
Numbah 2's face turned guilty. He thought his baby brother was the most annoying thing on this planet, yes, but they were going to be stuck together for the rest of their lives and even longer. It was about time he made some peace between them. He ran off the lake, took his skates off, put his shoes on, and ran after his teenage counterpart and little brother.
Walking up the sidewalk, Tommy sniffed and wiped away his tears. He really loved his older brother more than anything else in the world, and he'd do anything to hang out with him, and I mean anything. That's why he had made friends with the Common Cold once. He thought he was going to get to spend more time with his brother, but he only got a cold.
"Tommy! Tommy, wait!" Number 2 called as she ran up the street to him. Tommy stopped and turned around.
"Aren't you Hoagie's friend?" he asked.
"Yeah," Number 2 confirmed. "I'm sorry he didn't introduce us. My name's Jen."
"I'm Tommy, but you already knew that." Tommy said, shaking Number 2's hand.
"Look, I bet your brother didn't mean what he said." Number 2 tried reasoning with Tommy. "It's just that he was in the middle of doing something and he didn't want to be bothered."
"What was he doing?" Tommy asked.
"An ice-skating trick." Number 2 replied. "He almost had it."
"But then I had to come along and it almost cost him his life!" Tommy shouted, more tears rolling down his face. "I just want to hang out with Hoagie like real brothers. I want to be just like him one day! He's so cool, and I want to be cool like him!"
Tommy burst into full tears and began gasping and rubbing his eyes.
"Oh, don't cry." Number 2 said, and put her arms around the sobbing little boy. She knelt there, hugging him, until he stopped crying.
"My big brother," Tommy whispered.
"He loves you back, I promise you that." Number 2 said, holding Tommy close against her.
"Tommy! Number 2!" Numbah 2 called, running towards them. He caught up to them. "Look, I'm sorry, okay?"
"Sorry for what?" Number 2 snapped.
"I'm sorry for calling Tommy a brat, and for wishing my parents stopped at one child, okay?" Number 2 announced, trying to make everyone feel better.
"Tommy?" Number 2 asked, looking down at him. Tommy left Number 2's arms and walked over to Numbah 2.
"My big brother," he whispered, and he grabbed onto Number 2 with as much little brother love as he possibly could.
"I'll make you a deal." Numbah 2 began. "If you cannot bother the Kids Next Door and me when we're battling, you can come hang out at our tree house every now and then."
"Really?" Tommy gasped and looked up at his big brother with the biggest smile in the world on his face. "I love you so much, Hoagie!"
"Yeah, okay," Numbah 2 said, trying to break free of his brother's grasp.
"Let's go back to the lake before the rest of the gang drinks all the good hot cocoa." Number 2 suggested. Numbah 2 and Tommy nodded in agreement.
On their walk back to the lake, Number 2 got a strange feeling.
"Somebody's following us." She announced. She whipped her head around and scanned the sidewalk and road, but the place was bare. She listened to the world for a moment, closing her eyes and imitating her leader. Her eyes shot open no sooner they had closed and she jolted her head back up to the sky.
"HA! You don't have the rest of your team!" something shouted from up in the clouds. "Do you think you can cure," the something flew out of the clouds and in front of the three of them. "The Common Cold like that?!"
The Common Cold shot one of its snot missiles down to Number 2. She jumped out of the way and lightly stepped on the sidewalk. The Common Cold shot another missile at Numbah 2, but he rolled out of the way in just the nick of time. Finally, the Common Cold shot something at Tommy, but it wasn't a snot missile.
"Tommy!" Number 2 screamed, and she jumped to protect the little boy. When she did, a giant, unbreakable snot cord wrapped around her and pulled her up high into the sky.
"I know that cord from somewhere!" Numbah 2 announced.
"I'd like to give a special thanks to The Delightful Teens from Down the Lane for loaning this to me!" The Common Cold laughed harshly and started covering Number 2 in his snot missiles. When she was completely covered, he rose higher into the sky.
"And I didn't even bring any juice!" Numbah 2 shouted. "Where's that Number 9 with her chicken noodle soup when you need her?!?"
Suddenly, the rest of the team came running down the street.
"We heard Number 2 scream!" Number 1 announced. "Where is she?"
"Don't worry, she's with me!" The Common Cold shouted, and showed the team the snot-covered Number 2.
"NUMBER 2!!!" the team screamed. Number 2 tried to fight her way out of the snot and cord, but it was no use. The germs were entering her body and affecting her at an alarming rate. She looked down at her team.
"Numbah 2," she barely whispered. The last thing she saw was The Common Cold shooting snot missiles down at her team.
Then, her world went black.
~*End of Chapter Three*~
Okay, it's been really hard to find inspiration with no reviews. Hello? People, are you still there? I like, need you in order to continue writing stuff! Okay! Oh, and I forgot to mention this in the first chapter: In case you forget how to determine the TND and KND see Operation: TEENS. I don't feel like saying it again. ^_^
~*Chapter 3*~
The sun was trying to shine through the snow clouds that covered the town. Those clouds were thick, which probably meant that was the reason the snow was so thick on that fine snow day. The TND and the KND had rented skates and went to the lake in the park. The five teens and five kids were trying to have some fun, but a certain someone had just interrupted that. A second someone was coming, too, followed by a third someone, but they didn't know that, now did they?
"Lizzie, do you really have to hang on my arm that way?" Numbah 1 asked his girlfriend. "You're going to make me loose my balance."
"We never get to spend any time together anymore all because of those stupid Kids Next Door!" Lizzie complained. "You should have told me you were coming down to the lake to skate today! We could have gone together!"
"Uh-huh." Numbah 1 agreed. "Sure."
"Who's your little friend, Numbah 1?" Number 1 asked, kneeling down in front of him on her skates.
"Number 1, this is Lizzie, Lizzie, this is Number 1 of the Teens Next Door." Numbah 1 said dully.
"Oh!" Number 1 gasped. "So you're Lizzie!"
"Uh-huh!" Lizzie cheered. "Nigel's my boyfriend!"
Numbah 1 blushed deep red as Number 1 giggled.
"You're a lucky girl." Number 1 said in between laughs. "Nigel's a great guy."
Numbah 1's face turned extremely stubborn and embarrassed. He narrowed his eyes and looked up at his teenage counterpart above his sunglasses. She winked at him and smiled.
"Hey, Number 1! Numbah 1!" Number 3 called. "We're ready to start skating!"
"Lizzie, I have to go, but we can hang out after I do a few laps on the lake." Numbah 1 announced, looking for an excuse.
"Oh, okay, Nigel." Lizzie said, being 'clingy.' "After you skate, you can buy me a cup of hot cocoa!"
"It's a date." Numbah 1 agreed, giving in. He and Number 1 waved good- bye to Lizzie and skated out on the lake together.
"Why did you call me Nigel?" Numbah 1 asked, at the peak of his annoyance.
"Sorry," Number 1 said innocently. "I was trying to be polite to Lizzie. You can call me Megan if you want."
"I'll save it for the next time I want to embarrass you." Numbah 1 said, half joking, half serious. Number 1 laughed it off and went to skate a figure-8.
On the other side of the lake, Number 2 and her kid counterpart were skating side-by-side. Numbah 2 looked up at her and watched her long, dark brown hair fly in back of her as she picked up speed.
"You're good at this." He complimented her.
"Thanks!" Number 2 said as she started skating backwards.
"I could never do that!" Numbah 2 exclaimed, trying to follow behind her.
"If you think that's impressive, check this out!" Number 2 called as she zoomed faster and faster across the ice backwards. For a moment, Numbah 2 was stunned, but then, his face turned worried and scared.
"You're coming towards the thin ice!" he screamed.
Number 2 was coming onto the thin ice fast, and Numbah 2's scream caught the attention of everybody else that was skating.
"You heard your counterpart!" Number 5 called desperately. "Watch out!"
Number 2 didn't seem worried. She actually had a smirk on her face. Right when she was about land on the thin ice, she jumped up with all her might, flipped, and landed on the other side of it, totally unscathed. The rest of the team just stood there in awe.
"You have to teach me how to do that!" Numbah 2 shrieked.
"I don't think so, Numbah 2," Numbah 4 began. "That was one of the most impressive ice skating moves I've ever seen. No offense or anythin' mate, but you're still a beginner."
The rest of the team nodded in agreement.
"Oh come on!" Number 2 shouted to her team. "He can learn to do that move if he wants! It just takes practice, that's all!" She drew her attention back to her counterpart. "Do you really want to learn how to do that move?" she asked. Numbah 2 nodded in slight embarrassment.
"I'll bet you the twenty you owe me for the candy that he doesn't make it over the ice." Number 1 whispered to her counterpart.
"You've got yourself a bet." Numbah 1 whispered back. "And just to make things more fun, why don't we double that? How 'bout forty dollars?"
Number 1 smirked and nodded as she brought her head back up to watch Numbah 2 attempt to jump over the thin ice.
"Just do exactly as I say." Number 2 said to her counterpart. "Pick up as much speed as possible, jump off at the very tip of your skate, and roll into a ball in the air so that you flip. Don't worry if you don't get the landing right. That's the hardest part." Numbah 2 nodded and narrowed his eyes underneath his air plane cap and goggles. He started skating, faster and faster across the lake, picking up as much speed as he possibly could. He was just about to jump when something came up from behind.
"Hoagie! Do you want to hang out today? We have a snow day!" It was Tommy, Numbah 2's baby brother.
That distracted Numbah 2 and instead of flipping over the thin ice, he fell right into it!
"Numbah 2!" the team called.
"You owe me a forty." Number 1 mumbled to Numbah 1.
"Help!" Numbah 2 called back. "I can't swim!"
With that, Numbah 2's head went below the water. Everybody gasped as Number 2 jumped in after him. She scanned the water quickly, and saw her counterpart sinking. Number 2 was a powerful swimmer, so she dove down far. She finally caught Numbah 2's arm and pulled him up high above the water.
"Thank God!" Number 4 said as she and the rest of the team helped Number 2 get her kid counterpart out of the water, and then herself.
"Somebody get some hot cocoa from the stand!" Number 2 commanded.
Hearing this, Lizzie ran over to the hot cocoa stand and grabbed a cup.
"You're supposed to pay for that!" the cashier yelled after her.
"Sorry!" she yelled back. "It's an emergency!"
Lizzie ran over onto the lake and passed the cup to Number 2. She brought it to Numbah 2's mouth and slowly dripped it in his mouth.
"Are you okay, Numbah 2?" she asked. "Say something!"
Numbah 2 shook his head and opened his eyes.
"Thank God you're alive!" Numbah 5 said.
"Yeah," Numbah 2 confirmed, rubbing his eyes. "I'm okay."
"Hey, Hoagie, you want to hang out now, huh?" Tommy asked, jumping up and down in hope. Numbah 2 shot his brother a death-stare and got up and walked over to him.
"Do I want to hang out?" he repeated. "First, you get everybody sick when you made friends with the Common Cold, then you get sick yourself, and then you almost get me killed! And now you want to hang out?"
Tommy nodded and smiled.
"You idiot." Numbah 2 mumbled. "All I get for hanging out with someone like you is a cold, losing my friends, and almost losing my life! GET OUT OF HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!"
Tommy's lips quivered and he began crying and running away from the TND and KND.
"Stupid brother," Numbah 2 whispered. "I wish my parents stopped at one child."
"That's mean!" Numbah 3 complained.
"Yeah, Numbah 2!" Number 2 chimed in. "The kid's only like, what? Five years old? You can't go busting on him that hard! The reason he wants to hang out with you is because he loves you and he looks up to you as an idol. It's too bad you can't realize it when somebody loves you."
With that, Number 2 took off her skates, put her shoes on, and ran after Tommy.
"Number 2!" Numbah 2 called after her. "Wait! I wasn't serious!"
"Oh yes you were." Number 1 corrected him. "I know. I used to be like that, too, and I know when somebody's joking, and when somebody's serious. And let me tell you, you were dead serious."
Numbah 2's face turned guilty. He thought his baby brother was the most annoying thing on this planet, yes, but they were going to be stuck together for the rest of their lives and even longer. It was about time he made some peace between them. He ran off the lake, took his skates off, put his shoes on, and ran after his teenage counterpart and little brother.
Walking up the sidewalk, Tommy sniffed and wiped away his tears. He really loved his older brother more than anything else in the world, and he'd do anything to hang out with him, and I mean anything. That's why he had made friends with the Common Cold once. He thought he was going to get to spend more time with his brother, but he only got a cold.
"Tommy! Tommy, wait!" Number 2 called as she ran up the street to him. Tommy stopped and turned around.
"Aren't you Hoagie's friend?" he asked.
"Yeah," Number 2 confirmed. "I'm sorry he didn't introduce us. My name's Jen."
"I'm Tommy, but you already knew that." Tommy said, shaking Number 2's hand.
"Look, I bet your brother didn't mean what he said." Number 2 tried reasoning with Tommy. "It's just that he was in the middle of doing something and he didn't want to be bothered."
"What was he doing?" Tommy asked.
"An ice-skating trick." Number 2 replied. "He almost had it."
"But then I had to come along and it almost cost him his life!" Tommy shouted, more tears rolling down his face. "I just want to hang out with Hoagie like real brothers. I want to be just like him one day! He's so cool, and I want to be cool like him!"
Tommy burst into full tears and began gasping and rubbing his eyes.
"Oh, don't cry." Number 2 said, and put her arms around the sobbing little boy. She knelt there, hugging him, until he stopped crying.
"My big brother," Tommy whispered.
"He loves you back, I promise you that." Number 2 said, holding Tommy close against her.
"Tommy! Number 2!" Numbah 2 called, running towards them. He caught up to them. "Look, I'm sorry, okay?"
"Sorry for what?" Number 2 snapped.
"I'm sorry for calling Tommy a brat, and for wishing my parents stopped at one child, okay?" Number 2 announced, trying to make everyone feel better.
"Tommy?" Number 2 asked, looking down at him. Tommy left Number 2's arms and walked over to Numbah 2.
"My big brother," he whispered, and he grabbed onto Number 2 with as much little brother love as he possibly could.
"I'll make you a deal." Numbah 2 began. "If you cannot bother the Kids Next Door and me when we're battling, you can come hang out at our tree house every now and then."
"Really?" Tommy gasped and looked up at his big brother with the biggest smile in the world on his face. "I love you so much, Hoagie!"
"Yeah, okay," Numbah 2 said, trying to break free of his brother's grasp.
"Let's go back to the lake before the rest of the gang drinks all the good hot cocoa." Number 2 suggested. Numbah 2 and Tommy nodded in agreement.
On their walk back to the lake, Number 2 got a strange feeling.
"Somebody's following us." She announced. She whipped her head around and scanned the sidewalk and road, but the place was bare. She listened to the world for a moment, closing her eyes and imitating her leader. Her eyes shot open no sooner they had closed and she jolted her head back up to the sky.
"HA! You don't have the rest of your team!" something shouted from up in the clouds. "Do you think you can cure," the something flew out of the clouds and in front of the three of them. "The Common Cold like that?!"
The Common Cold shot one of its snot missiles down to Number 2. She jumped out of the way and lightly stepped on the sidewalk. The Common Cold shot another missile at Numbah 2, but he rolled out of the way in just the nick of time. Finally, the Common Cold shot something at Tommy, but it wasn't a snot missile.
"Tommy!" Number 2 screamed, and she jumped to protect the little boy. When she did, a giant, unbreakable snot cord wrapped around her and pulled her up high into the sky.
"I know that cord from somewhere!" Numbah 2 announced.
"I'd like to give a special thanks to The Delightful Teens from Down the Lane for loaning this to me!" The Common Cold laughed harshly and started covering Number 2 in his snot missiles. When she was completely covered, he rose higher into the sky.
"And I didn't even bring any juice!" Numbah 2 shouted. "Where's that Number 9 with her chicken noodle soup when you need her?!?"
Suddenly, the rest of the team came running down the street.
"We heard Number 2 scream!" Number 1 announced. "Where is she?"
"Don't worry, she's with me!" The Common Cold shouted, and showed the team the snot-covered Number 2.
"NUMBER 2!!!" the team screamed. Number 2 tried to fight her way out of the snot and cord, but it was no use. The germs were entering her body and affecting her at an alarming rate. She looked down at her team.
"Numbah 2," she barely whispered. The last thing she saw was The Common Cold shooting snot missiles down at her team.
Then, her world went black.
~*End of Chapter Three*~
